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How a Mining Company Paid to Play in Walker’s Wis.
By Rebecca KembleDocuments released last Friday afternoon from the John Doe investigation into potentially illegal campaign activities by the Scott Walker campaign during the recalls of 2011-2012...
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The Case that Could Decide KXL
Dave Saldana-- by Dave Saldana, Keystone PipeLIES ExposedIt's not often that a state court hears a case that has global consequences. But it's about to happen, and the public will have a ringside seat...
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Naomi Klein's Climate Manifesto
Naomi Klein’s Climate Manifestoby Matthew Rothschild This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the ClimateBy Naomi KleinSimon & Schuster. $30. 566 pages.Here is the long-awaited book on climate...
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Glorious, Joyous Climate March
By Harvey Wasserman The most hopeful, diverse, photogenic, energizing and often hilarious march I've joined in 52 years of activism---and one of the biggest, at 310,000 strong---has delivered a simple...
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Support Indigenous Struggles Against Corporate Onslaught
This year Seattle and Minneapolis proclaimed the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day. They are the latest U.S. cities to join the trend that began in Berkeley in 1992 to supplant...
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Warren Anderson’s Silence
Kirk NielsenIT WAS A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT. Not as loathsome as tracking down a Nazi war criminal. But definitely not as simple as dialing up your average retired CEO and asking him to reflect on his...
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Senate Says "NoKXL" to Keystone Pipeline
Julia BurkeYesterday the U.S. Senate narrowly defeated a bill that would approve construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf that environmental activists say could...
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Climate Change Challenges: Support the Environment, or the US Military?
Kathy KellyHaving lived through the 1991 Desert Storm bombing and the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing in Iraq, I tread carefully when speaking about any danger greater than war that children in our world...
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30 Years Later, My Wife and Her Friend Recall Bhopal
Amitabh PalMy wife, Deepa, was in Bhopal thirty years ago when the industrial disaster hit. She was only eleven years old at the time.“In the middle of the night, my brother woke up coughing...
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On Green Cities, Wilderness, and Hip-Hop Education: An Interview With Baba...
Julia BurkeWith rhymes that include The Princess Bride references and call-outs searing everyone from his fellow liberals to Bible-belt Creationists, Baba Brinkman wields good-natured wit and acerbic...
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Keystone XL: a 'Declaration of War' in Indian Country
Mark Anthony RoloThis story appeared in the February 2015 issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. Just outside Winner, South Dakota, on sparsely populated land, sits a small...
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Making Deserts Bloom
Robert Leonard ReidEditor's Note: As politicans and CEOs persist in denying the reality of climate change and Californians face a dire water shortage, we found this July 1981 archival piece...
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Farewell, Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo GaleanoEditor's Note: Today we mourn the loss of Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), Uruguyan journalist, longtime Progressive columnist, and author, after a battle with lung cancer. Galeano was a...
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Gagging Over Global Climate Change
Ruth ConniffWelcome to Wisconsin, where April Fool’s Day lasts all year!How about Mike Huebsch, head of our state Public Service Commission, declaring that global warming is caused by volcanoes, not...
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The National Pollution Scandal
Gaylord A. NelsonThe founder of Earth Day, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, wrote this scathing essay on the scourge of pollution in 1967. On Earth Day's forty-fifth birthday, his warning that "the...
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The BP Oil Spill, Five Years Later
Andrew StelzerFive years ago on Monday, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the oil industry wrought havoc on the Gulf of Mexico when the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and...
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Ambivalence and Horror in Nepal
Amitabh PalMy mother was near the village school she runs about 100 miles south of the Nepal border in India when she noticed a strong tremor. She immediately had the building evacuated. When a second...
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Ask Dr. Science: Scott Walker Edition
Jud LounsburyI grew up in a small town in central Iowa and the soundtrack of that time would most certainly have to include my comedic hero, Dan Coffey, and the daily 90-second bit he used to do on NPR...
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The Green Energy Revolt
Jason MarkThis article appeared in the May 2015 issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. Debbie Dooley is mad as hell. Since 2012, the fifty-six-year-old grandmother and former...
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Letter from California: Field Notes on a State in Drought
Jason MarkThis article appears in the current issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. This was the year without a winter. In January, not a single drop of rain fell in the San...
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